Chapter 2: How'd I get here?

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Hibana's head hurt.

She'd been half-dreaming, remembering things, until the faraway sound of thunder crowded through the dark, pulling her close to wakefulness. She'd dreamed of having Y/N back at home with her and Valkyrie in their cosy living room, the smell of burning birch trees in the fireplace in the living room. The sweet fragrance along with the crackling sounds of the fire. She and Valkyrie laying on either-side of Y/N's arms.

Thunder again, louder, and she realized that something was wrong but couldn't seem to wake up, to stop remembering. Y/N. Her boyfriend had gone to Europe on a personal matter, Ash telling her not for her and Valkyrie to follow him.

That was thirteen months ago.

She couldn't take it anymore and she soon went across the world to Europe to find him. Leaving a depressed Valkyrie all on her own in her home, when she returned home after she heard the destruction of Fairhaven City, she couldn't help Valkyrie as she would have hoped.

She concentrated, trying to remember what happened, but it would only come in pieces, pictures and thoughts since she arrived in Europe. Images of the data she had from Atlas' labs in Europe. There was a main one in  an old WW2 Bunker just outside Berlin-

- a phone call. "The Number you have dialled cannot be reached at the moment. Please try again later" the call ended. She found out the HQ Admin in Europe might have information on Y/N's whereabouts. Hibana didn't know how screwed she was until the first bullets ripped past, chasing her onto the spotlight riddled ground, into a building-

- gunshots ripped past her, running through corridors, deafened by the sound of automatic weapons and the helicopter outside, running, bullets chipping by close enough to send sharpened silvers of floor tile into the meat of my calves-

-an explosion, armed soldiers writhing in the blast's fury, and....and she was caught.

They held her for over a week, trying everything they could to make her talk. She remained quiet. Only asking where Y/N was. They had realized of how useless of an informant she was, she'd been taken away. Cuffed and muffled, two private places and a helicopter later, the island. She didn't even see it, they'd put a hood over her face, the stifling blackness only adding to her fear.

The Cauldron, wasn't that what the pilot called it? It was a long way from Berlin, but that was the extend of her knowledge. Thunder, there was a sound of thunder. She remembered being pushed through a muddy prison cemetery in the grey morning, catching a glimpse through her stifling hood of the graves, marked with elaborate headstones. Down some stairs, welcome to your new home and-

BOOM!

The ground was shaking, rumbling, Hibana opened her eyes just in time to see the one overhead lights go out, the thick metal bars of her cell suddenly imprinted in negative and floating off to her left in the pitch dark. She lay on her side on the clammy, dirty floor.

Get up.

She crawled to her knees, her muscles stiff and sore. The blackness of the cold dark dank room was very still, except for the sound of water dripping, a slow and lonely sound; it appeared she was alone. The renewed awareness of her situation knotted in her stomach, but she did her best to put her fear aside. She needed to think straight, to figure out her options, and she needed to be ready to act. She wouldn't have survived during her sword fight against Kasuto when she-

Your on an island run by Atlas, Even if you got by the guards, where can you go?

One predicament at a time. First things first, she should probably stand up. Except for the painful lump at her right temple from the asshole who'd knocked her out, she didn't think was injured-

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